JUNE 1
The Giving Tree Band
with
Andy Fleming (of Brother Trucker)
Har-di-Har
The High Crest

Do you make and sell awesome local stuff?

Yes? Then you might be a perfect fit for the 2013 Ankeny Unplugged market — Apply online today!

It’s easy and inexpensive to submit your application to our Market coordinators.

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A limited number of early bird season passes are available for 2013!

What you get for just $10:

• Gate entry to all four Ankeny Unplugged 2013 events
• Drink specials: 2-for-1 beer from 4pm-6pm
• Special food pricing: Great Deals on food!
• An amazing feeling for being awesome
• …and more!

Hey, hey, HEY! AU 2013 is hereby announced!

ALL you need to know now is:

Saturday, June 1

Saturday, June 8

Saturday, June 15

Saturday, June 22

In a local band?

Interested in submitting to play? Email your band info/website, and song samples to booking@ankenyunplugged.com!

There are few things you need to know, read them here.

• This is the final week of Ankeny Unplugged for 2012 — if you’ve been draggin’ your feet, get to this one! Miss it last week? Think we bailed on it just because of rain? NO WAY! Here’s photographic proof, y’all.
• Our acts this week are: Christopher the Conquered and his Black Gold Brass Band (8pm), Jordan Mayland & The Thermal Detonators (7pm), The New Bodies (6pm), and Patrick Tape Fleming (of The Poison Control Center) (5pm). You want pure entertainment? You got it. Click here to listen to free songs and learn about each of this week’s artists. Have you seen the 2012 promo video? Go get a little taste of Christopher in action.
• New local beers this week! The taps will be pouring 16 ounces of Olde Main (Ames) Stout and Court Avenue Brewery (Des Moines) into your mugs for the same price as a domestic beer. Don’t forget your mug!
• Still just $3 at the gate, kids 12 and under free, or buy an advance ticket and save $$.
• Gate opens at 4pm.
• Art and craft market from 4pm-8pm, new vendors each week! See the full list here.
• Food and drink from 4pm-9pm.
• Merchandise is available to commemorate the season — buttons, t-shirts, limited-edition screen-printed posters, band CDs. You can also buy t-shirts online: asphalt or aqua, and the poster soon. Think of an owl playing a banjo, or a bear playing an accordion. Yep.
• Season pass holders and advance ticket purchasers — just show your ID at the gate.
• Free bicycle valet service every week!
• Have a question? Looky here.

Stay informed, read this list of information amazement

•  It’s BIKEIOWA night! The Fat Tire Fun Ride ends up at Ankeny Unplugged this week…cyclists know how to party, y’all. Wanna know more? Click this.
• More photos added to the photo album from week 2! See what you missed, or remember what you witnessed. It was good stuff. LINK.
• This is the rock, blues, and acoustic radness you will see this week: Headliner Fierce Bad Rabbit (8pm) is coming to us all the way from Colorado. Check out their stuff — it’s addictive! Wisconsin based and critically acclaimed The Brothers Burn Mountain (7pm) bring some blues-rock fusion AU hasn’t seen yet. MINT (6pm) from right here in Des Moines just opened for Weezer; you will soon see why they were chosen. Local music hero James Biehn (5pm) starts the night with his mastery on guitar and thoughtful songwriting.
• Click these words now to learn more about this week’s acts and listen to free music and videos from them.
• New local beers this week! The taps will be pouring 16 ounces of Olde Main (Ames) Off Kilter Scottish Ale and Millstream (Amana) Schild Brau into your mugs for the same price as a domestic beer. Don’t forget your mug.
• Gate opens at 4pm.
• Art and craft market from 4pm-8pm, new vendors each week! See the full list here.
• Food and drink from 4pm-9pm.
• Still just $3 at the gate, kids 12 and under free, or buy an advance ticket and save $$.
• More merchandise to commemorate this year’s fest — buttons, t-shirts, limited-edition screen-printed posters, and band merch. (you can buy t-shirts online: asphalt or aqua, and the poster soon)
• Season pass holders and advance ticket purchasers — just show your ID at the gate.
• Free bicycle valet service every week!
• The bike powered generator is back! You may have noticed it missing last week, but it has been repaired and is ready for action. Power the party!
• This week’s event sponsor is Kosama. Get muscley!
• Have a question? Looky here.
  

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Click it.

That’s the awesome limited edition, screen-printed, hand-numbered, commemorative Ankeny Unplugged 2012 poster created by the local Des Moines-based folks at BASEMINT Design…and we’re REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT!

Wanna know the best part? The 2012 model is on sale at each Ankeny Unplugged event at the merch tent, and it’s only $10, for now.

So, get your birds in a row and get one now, folks!

PROTIP: They did one last year, too, and it’s still for sale in their Etsy store (click here), if you want to have the whole series…which we can only assume is true!

What not to miss this week

• PHOTOS! Check out our photo album from last week to see what you missed (or relive what you saw).
• This week’s bands: Caroline Smith (8pm). You need to see her, you’ll fall in love, promise. Also: Arynn (Elizabeth Arynn) (7pm), The Sudden Lovelys (6pm), and The Host Country (5pm). A member of one of these bands sits on an antique bicycle seat and stomps on a trunk. Seriously.
• Go here to learn more about the acts and listen to free songs and videos RIGHT NOW.
• Gate opens at 4pm.
• Art and Craft market from 4pm-8pm, some new vendors this week! See the full list here.
• Food and Drink from 4pm-9pm.
• Still just $3 at the gate, kids 12 and under free, or buy an advance ticket and save $$.
• Local beer! Bring your own mug or buy one at the merch tent, and for one drink ticket–the same price as a Budweiser–we’ll fill it with 16 ounces of either Olde Main Dinkey Wheat (Ames, IA) or Back Pocket Slingshot Dunkel (McGregor, IA).
• Check out the merchandise to commemorate your amazing time — Buttons! T-shirts! Band merch! YES! (Now you can buy t-shirts online, too: asphalt or aqua)
• Season pass holders and advance ticket purchasers — just show your ID at the gate.
  
• Free bicycle valet service every week.
• This week’s event sponsor is Jeff Downing, Realtor, Coldwell Banker.
• A commemorative poster will be for sale by BASEMINT design! They are awesome folks — here’s a teaser sketch.
• AU buttons, t-shirts, posters and more are waiting for you in the merch tent.
• Have a question? Looky here.

Quick things to note about week 1. It begins!

We thank all members of the military who have and do serve and remember those we have lost.

In observation of Memorial Day week, FREE ADMISSION will be granted to current and former military service members at the Ankeny Unplugged Music Festival Series event on SATURDAY, JUNE 2.

If you would like to help us spread the word about this offer, please download and distribute the PDF flyer.

This benefit is sponsored in part by Brooks Borg Skiles Architecture Engineering, LLP.

Official press release